ecoculture, geophilosophy, mediapolitics

vampyroteuthis infernalis

This is one of my favorite scenes from the David Attenborough-narrated Planet Earth series… The music is toned down, soft and sparse and a little eerie, some of the cinematic apparatus (at least the lights of the submersible) is displayed on camera, and we get a hint of the umwelt of a very strange creature, before that creature “disappears into the blackness,” rather like Graham Harman’s objects disappearing into the density of their tool-being…